In the year 1875 ‘Abdu’l-Bahá – the son of the founder of the Bahá’i Faith, Bahá’u’lláh – wrote the powerful, profound book The Secret of Divine Civilization.

Although ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s book ostensibly focuses on the dynamic of modernization as it applied to Persian society at the time, it also provides a larger framework for social development to be used by both developed and underdeveloped countries. Today, almost 150 years after its initial publication, it still offers strikingly incisive insights into the requisites of a modern civilization.

Racism is a profound deviation from the standard of true morality. It deprives a portion of humanity of the opportunity to cultivate and express the full range of their capability and to live a meaningful and flourishing life, while blighting the progress of the rest of humankind. It cannot be rooted out by contest and conflict. It must be supplanted by the establishment of just relationships among individuals, communities, and institutions of society that will uplift all and will not designate anyone as “other”. The change required is not merely social and economic, but above all moral and spiritual.

Study of July 22, 2020 Universal House of Justice Message on Race in America.

You’ve asked and the Memphis community will be starting up an ongoing “Baha’i Basics” class!

Have you become a Baha’i in the last few years?  Would you like to know more about the basics of the Faith?

If you answered YES to these questions, then this new class may be what you are looking for!!!

All are welcome and we invite you to join us.

Contact Rebecca Schmidt (becca.schmidt2242@gmail.com) to reserve your place.  Or call her at 731-234-4999 if you have questions.

This weekly class will be on Thursday evenings via Zoom 6:30-8:00 PM

• Zoom Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81416528710?pwd=aFVjVUNzSk5CZUFMN2VPWnBOWGpIUT09
• Meeting ID: 814 1652 8710
• Passcode: 295481
• One Tap Mobile: +13017158592,,81416528710#,,,,,,0#,,295481# US (Germantown)

Share prayers, music and poetry.  We are open to whatever strikes your fancy!

Open to youth of ages 15 and up!

Join us for prayers of healing and aid for the community!

Currently studying Unit 2, proceeding to Unit 3 upon completion.

• Zoom Meeting Link: https://zoom.us/j/85932365945
• Meeting ID: 859 3236 5945
• Passcode: 794157

Friends, in its January 22, 2019 letter, the Universal House of Justice urged the Baha’is to “vigorously engage in constructive public discourse and in a wide range of social endeavors aimed at the betterment of the world and the progress of their respective nations”. We have been asked  by our National Spiritual Assembly to make a “determined and sustained effort- in eradicating the stain of racial prejudice from the fabric of our nation.” Our Memphis Baha’i Assembly has asked that the community begin a discourse on racial unity.

In this spirit, we are beginning a series of Sunday afternoon discourses to which we hope eventually to invite the greater Memphis community.  For the month of October, we are piloting the program, for Baha’is and their friends.  Please come and bring a friend.  Their feedback will be most helpful as we move forward.   The one hour sessions will involve simply reading a short prayer and short passage followed by offering the attendees an opportunity to reflect on the writings, bringing in the richness of their own experiences and thoughts. The goal is to join hands with each other in a commitment to racial unity and justice, and to create an understanding of the Oneness of Humanity.

Racism is a profound deviation from the standard of true morality. It deprives a portion of humanity of the opportunity to cultivate and express the full range of their capability and to live a meaningful and flourishing life, while blighting the progress of the rest of humankind. It cannot be rooted out by contest and conflict. It must be supplanted by the establishment of just relationships among individuals, communities, and institutions of society that will uplift all and will not designate anyone as “other”. The change required is not merely social and economic, but above all moral and spiritual.

Study of July 22, 2020 Universal House of Justice Message on Race in America.

You’ve asked and the Memphis community will be starting up an ongoing “Baha’i Basics” class!

Have you become a Baha’i in the last few years?  Would you like to know more about the basics of the Faith?

If you answered YES to these questions, then this new class may be what you are looking for!!!

All are welcome and we invite you to join us.

Contact Rebecca Schmidt (becca.schmidt2242@gmail.com) to reserve your place.  Or call her at 731-234-4999 if you have questions.

This weekly class will be on Thursday evenings via Zoom 6:30-8:00 PM

• Zoom Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81416528710?pwd=aFVjVUNzSk5CZUFMN2VPWnBOWGpIUT09
• Meeting ID: 814 1652 8710
• Passcode: 295481
• One Tap Mobile: +13017158592,,81416528710#,,,,,,0#,,295481# US (Germantown)

Share prayers, music and poetry.  We are open to whatever strikes your fancy!

Open to youth of ages 15 and up!